Mateu Lahoz admonishes Xavi Hernández at Barça-Espanyol (1-1)

REGRETABLE PERFORMANCE OF THE REFEREE

Like this it was the 'show' of Mateu Lahoz in the Barça-Espanyol

Published:31/12/2022 - 16:25h

Updated:31/12/2022 - 17:26h

After his embarrassing performance in the Netherlands-Argentina World Cup match, Mateu Lahoz reappeared in LaLiga with another performance to forget. The Valencian referee showed up to three reds, one of them to Jordi Alba

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The Technical Committee of Referees of LaLiga goes to have to replantearse seriously the apparitions of Mateu Lahoz in important parties. In the derbi Catalan, the referee went back to wrap it in the Spotify Camp Nou in a second part for the forget where showed until three red cards, one of them to Jordi Alba and another cancelled after intercesión of the VAR to the Uruguayan Leandro Cabrera.

Faithful to his habit, Mateu began very active from the first part, forgiving a yellow to Brian Oliván by an agarrón of T-shirt to Ansu. In his place, the '10' was the one who vió the yellow for reacting with a manotazo to the side. Oliván Would be admonished five minutes later by a hammer with Gavi in where the mediocentro culé also was apercibido. Cabrera completed the listing of admonished in the first stretch in the 3'1, by a clear fault on Gavi.

In the complement, the 'show' of Antonio Mateu was total. In the 70', the referee hit in sanctioning a penalti of Marcos Alonso on Joselu where the defender blaugrana stepped to the '9' visitor. The same Joselu commissioned to convert the maximum penalty to put the 1-1 and, in the celebrations 'pericos', the spirits caldearon. Jordi Alba and Vinicius Coast had a particular crossing that saldó with yellow for both. Pedri Also carried his card for protesting, while the bench of the Barça exploded. It ran the minute 76 and the worst was for coming.

For I satisfy, Alba was expelled a minute later for protesting a fault to the edge of the area, while Xavi Hernández burst directing to the main judge: "it can not speak?", it said the technician egarense. Later, in the minute 81, the Espanyol was the white of the controversial decisions of Mateu Lahoz. Second yellow for Vinicius by a fault on Sergi Roberto and red direct to Cabrera by a pisotón on Robert Lewandowski. The VAR corrected to the referee, the one who after reviewing in the monitor opted for cancelling the red to the Uruguayan. During the esperpento lost more than five minutes, adding nine at the end.

In the discount there was time for more

To complete his stellar function in the temple culé, Mateu admonished to Raphinha in the 90+4' and to Xavi and Ronald Araújo a minute later for demanding a clear infringement on Ousmane Dembélé. So much the Brazilian like the charrúa demanded from the bench and the referee did not have inconvenient in crossing all the field to show them his respective yellow, including in his list to Arnau Tenas. At the end, Lahoz went back to desquiciar to all with absurd decisions and his particular way to direct parties. 14 yellow between both teams and two red completed the last function of the Valencian referee.

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